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David Britton is a Professor of Physics at the University of Glasgow and Project Leader of GridPP, a collaboration of particle physicists and computing scientists across 19 UK universities, including the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and CERN. The initiative provides computational infrastructure for Particle Physics in the UK. He serves as the deputy leader of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which links national computing resources from 40 countries to create a coherent global infrastructure for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. David is also a member of the ATLAS collaboration and has participated in experiments related to the LHC and the NA62 rare kaon-decay experiment at CERN. His current research focuses on improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of the computational infrastructure needed to analyze High Energy Physics data, stemming from his involvement in the field for over 25 years. His past experiences include significant contributions to the CMS experiment at Imperial College, where he investigated the performance of crystals in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. He has also worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator for the BaBar experiment, at Cornell for the CLEO experiment, and at DESY Hamburg for the ARGUS experiment, with an emphasis on gaseous tracking detectors. His work at TRIUMF in Vancouver established stringent limits on lepton universality in rare pion decays through the PIENU experiment.